Philosophical Speculations

You realize you're going to be lambasted for misrepresenting Barfield. I would suggest that we are all to some extent or another 'conditioning'-centric, in that we all are interpreting through a conditioned mindset, which predisposes us toward certain views, for example, your own view that Barfield...

In my comment I was thinking mainly of Owen Barfield, who I think was quite ethnocentric. You realize you're going to be lambasted for misrepresenting Barfield. I would suggest that we are all to some extent or another 'conditioning'-centric, in that we all are interpreting through a conditioned mi...

In my comment I was thinking mainly of Owen Barfield, who I think was quite ethnocentric. You realize you're going to be lambasted for misrepresenting Barfield. I would suggest that we are all to some extent or another 'conditioning'-centric, in that we all are interpreting through a conditioned mi...

The notion of a spiritual evolution is a very ethnocentric one: it assumes that contemporary Western thought is at the forefront of this supposed evolutionary movement. How so, as it seems to be a prevalent theme in Aurobindo's cosmology, and certainly even predating him in some schools of Vedanta ...

Cleric, you should not assume that you are the only meditator here who practically work with and analyze the thoughts and conscious experiences on a regular basis. What you are describing here (observations and studies of the inter-relations of conscious phenomena "outside" of the framewo...

As I said in a prior post, I'm ambivalent about the idea of spiritual evolution. On the one hand, I think that our explicated metaphysical systems have evolved and become closer to the truth about the divine. These may cognitively and intuitively inform us better about our place in reality and our ...

Adur, I'm wondering if the bolded contradiction can't be overcome with a dynamic process view? As an old guy with health issues I often feel sensually like I'm living/dying. Hi Lou, I was talking about sense perceptions of the outer ("objective") world, not about inner sensations or feeli...

That is a very good question! Which means, it is a very difficult question to answer. ... Following A. H. Almaas, I would say that to understand that "process-at-large" you are describing, we need to introduce an intermediate level of reality between Universal Consciousness (or M@L) and e...

We can see this in our own experience: there is a clear difference between inner experiences (thoughts, emotions) and sense perceptions. In inner experience there is no fundamental impossibility of contradiction: I can feel happy and sad at the same time, or think that materialism is false and at t...

In the first part of this essay, I tried to show the problems inherent in Bernardo Kastrup’s Analytic Idealism. My critique has been based on direct intuition, but also on the study and practice of Eastern and Western wisdom traditions, which (at least in my view) provide a much deeper insight into...